>mfw americans live in the golden age of their country >mfw

>>71037323
America is not in its golden age desu

>>71037371
america is the best country in the world right now

>>71037371

we're riding the tail end of our Pax Americana

I think americas best time was 1920s and 50s

>>71037462
but they still live in the best country in the world

Not really, their golden age was when Europe was busy destroying it self with wars.

>>71037371
>Americans too stupid to understand that they live in a golden age of America

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>record export rates
>highest employment rate in history
>highest tax revenue in history.
>public budget surplus
>bond yields are negative, people are paying us for taking their money.
>surrounded by allies and friendly countries
>unified territory
>biggest economy in Europe
>most dominnat EU country, politically
>first European contact for other major powers(China, India)
>most popular country in the world according to the BBC country poll
>football world champion

Feels good living in your country's Golden Age before the Demographic Winter kicks in.

>>71037462
The period after the cold war and before 9/11 was clearly the best time. Everyone was optimistic about the future because the Soviet Union was dead and the internet was connecting us all and doing a bunch of cool shit. The economy was great and crime was starting to decline.

>>71037530
except america's golden age was the cold war

>>71037581
But Hans, your golden age was 1939-1942.

>>71037323
italy at its worst is still better than america at its best m8

>>71037690
You a have a to a go a back Luigi.

>>71037690
not true

>>71037581
i was gonna object and say that it was during the HRE when your culture formed but then i realized everyone in the HRE was sick and poor
maybe hitler wasn't so disastrous after all

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>>71037644
>Americans believe that their golden was during cold war

>>71037644
That golden age still extends to today you tard.

>>71037323
But the Italians of today are pale Germanic rape babies. The Romans who conquered the Europe were olive skinned and had curly hair.

>>71037690
Have you ever even been to Italy? it's a fucking shithole outside the north.

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>>71037967
>the end of the cold war didn't bring about elation and prosperity in his country
>in fact it brought about national humiliation, intense poverty, and set the stage for another kleptocracy to come into power

>>71038074
t. has not been to italy

>>71038074
t. know Italy only from /pol/

>>71037323
I don't think we're in the golden age, but certainly would agree that america is probably the most interesting country to live in currently. Doesn't mean it's the best though. I mean tell people digging ditches that they're in the golden age of america and they'll say que?

>>71037624
This is a copypaste from some Reddit 90skidznostalgia page.

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>>71038135
>Americans too stupid to prove their points

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>Golden Age

That's soon to be over


On a separate note, I keep having to fucking add more tweets to this pic. It just never ends.

>>71037644
it was in the 80s and the early 90s imo. most urban/street products incl hollywood people consume today, distributed worldwide, originate from the era.

this italian is utterly pathetic. his brain must be of internet memes, and most ameriboos/the shills are the same too.

>>71037530
Were feeling the downward pressure. Debt is higher, wages are lower, opportunities for entrepreneurs seem more risky and less lucrative, and the moral correctness of U.S. imperialism is approached with more skepticism-- all compared directly with the previous generation. The boomers had it better.

>>71037462

>The Great Depression

yeah man

>>71038318
Link me to it because that'd be an amazing coincidence if I somehow managed to come up with that and it's word for word what someone on a website I don't visit said.

>>71038223
I never visited the north, but I did go to Rome and it was literally worse than the most of the places in Mexico I've visited.

My vote for "golden decade" is 1950's or 1990's

but it's not like a golden age can't have some troubles, how do we define a golden era

>>71038074
south italy > usa

>>71037624
True actually. The 1990s was the zenith of human civilization. I will never forget the 90s.

>>71038445
t. visits tourist shitholes and wonders why he's visiting a shithole
>average american tourist

>>71038445
Not enough Mcdonalds for you Billy Bob ?

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>>71038352
t. low IQ subhuman

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>>71037323
>>mfw americans live in the golden age of their country

>>71038445
Rome is a shithole, as is the case with most capital cities. Still, there are more things of outstanding artistic value in Rome than in your entire country.

t. northerner

>>71038526
No excuse for having tourist shitholes that are even shittier than Mexico tourist shitholes.

Greece was better too.

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>>71038572
Added

>>71038616
>greece was better too

that's a low blow my man

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>>71038563
There were plenty of McDonalds

>>71038563
Europe needs chic fila and popeyes. Only then will they know how good fast food is.

Honestly they probably already do but idk.

>>71038616
Bullshit. Athens is way dirtier and poorer than Rome.

>>71038611
Okay listen Luigi, you worthless fucking faggot. Your country is a fucking joke, you're a communist shit hole and you can't afford to fix the fucking cracks in your sidewalk. I went for an audience with the pope the other day, and my mother wept, not for the popes speech, but for the poor, the dying children not inside the walls but on the streets of the surrounding city. It's so sad, how Italy creates the false heir of history, and clings to it so, Florence, Sienna, Orvieto, Assissi, the great religious men who worked here, and died there to feed the poor, their tombs are trodden over by the people brought in to exploit your cities of their people while the government takes all the revenue to spend on its fucking it's crooked agenda. You were gifted these monuments to the ancient world by your ancestors, and you squander it on nothingness. You're a fucking dirty disgusting people, and your last concern should be football you fucking spineless piece of shit.

>>71038744
cool your jets guy

>>71038744
>communist shit hole
Stopped reading there desu.

You seem upset, though.

>>71038826
it's a pasta

>>71037396
Are you fucking kidding me

>>71038744
>tell an american he is (objectively) wrong
>he goes full sperg
Are american never told they can be (should be "are") wrong?

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>>71037624
Thank you based Bill

>>71037462
yeah, the mafia violence from the Prohibiton, then the Great Depression, then WW2 then Korean war were the greatest periods

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>>71038662
>MFW STARKEKS, PIZZA HUT, AND SUBWAY DON'T EVEN EXIST IN CROATIA

>>71037396
That doesn't mean they're in a golden age

>>71037323
America's golden age was in the 1950s

>>71041557
we have them all, starbucks is fucking trash, pizza hut i think got bankrupt when dominoes opened.

subway is decent tho

>>71041629
they're all garbage

>>71041670
i like subway because there is one working 24/7 right infront of my home so its pretty much the main food when im drunk as fuck during the night.
i like that their products are usually fresher and better quality than the rest of the chains

KFC is my guilty pleasure tho, i know its fucking trash, but i love their chicken

wish we had something like in-n-out or 5 guys, mcdonalds and burger kings are utter shit

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>>71037396
Just because we're at the top now, it doesn't mean we're at the highest we ever were relative to the rest of the world.

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>>71041820
yeah, I basically just eat KFC if I eat fast food

but it's insane how Croatia got KFC just 5-6 years ago, Burger King even later (like 2 years ago or something and there's only 1)

I've /blog/ed a lot how Croats percieve McD's as upper class and shit, but when your pay is like 5 euro per hour, a 5 euro meal is probably not that cheap

http://desuarchive.org/int/thread/70636455/#70654929 if anyone is interested, is a good rant thread on how Croats are weird about Mcd's and such

>>71042248
yeah, all those fast food chains are overpriced actually for what they are

to get really well fed, you get to pay at least 10 euros in McDdonalds for example, why you can buy a huge, greasy, full with meat doner for 2 euros and eat the same amount of food.

thats why i prefer subway too, the sub of the day is like 1.50, ~2 euros for a regular and around 4 euros for the footlong

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>>71042437
haha, this is why I kek when Croats tell me that places like the UK are expensive and that Croatia is much cheaper

I know that it isn't

t. Croats have to pay double for a kebab than Bulgars

I remember eating Subway way back I was a kid and it didn't taste that good, but I think I it was just ham or something

>>71039212
It's true.
Banter aside, America is currently the most powerful and most advanced country. Everything thats relevant in the world either has its roots in America or is improved there.

>>71041897
>1810s-1820s
>China #1 at ~33%
>India #2 at ~16%
>UK, France and Germany COMBINED at ~14%
hahahahahaha

who the fuck made this shit?

>>71042854
You do realize that UK, France and Germany are small countries compared to China and India, right?

>>71042739
yeah, croatia seems way too expensive, how do you guys survive? your average wage is like 100 euros more than ours but everything seems at least 3 times more expensive

i have a croatian friend from split and i was really baffled when he told me hes playing around ~40-50 euros for his internet, while his speed was 2 times slower than mine

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>>71041897
>tfw you will never live in the 1950's

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>tfw still Pax Britannica

feels good man

euros BTFO

>>71042912
Yes, and?

Even today, after decades of enormous growth, India still has a lower GDP than France, despite the insane population difference.

Do you really unironically think that the three countries which were in the midst of the industrial revolution (which they pioneered) had LESS THAN HALF of China, a country which was back then extremely poor, undeveloped, isolationist, and already being controlled more and more by Europeans? And India was already England's bitch by then.

Those numbers are completely farsical at best, and completely revisionist at worst.

>dad was able to afford a sports car in high school while working retail and to live on his own right out of high school
>higher level job doesn't get me any of that shit

NOT GOLDEN AGE

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>>71041897
damn
living in America in the 18th century must have been bad
(or living anywhere in 18th century, actually)

>>71042912
well, the UK already had the Empire back then, so it really wasn't that small

>>71042946
>paying around ~40-50 euros for his internet
fugg, yeah, while it's def not the priciest internet in Europe, it's shit for the price. I pay around €25 for 100 down, 100 up

Most Croats I talk to don't notice the price which is frustrating, since they think that Croatia is way cheaper than other euro cunts, which isn't really the case

>>71043119
to be fair, cars then were a lot cheaper (even with inflation)

though, I know that yanks now sometimes sell their cars for like $500 or something insane like that

>>71043234
You can buy a working car for $500, but you'll almost certainly spend twice that in repairs and maintenance.

>>71043038
A FUCKING RAMP

>>71042970
50s were only good if you were a heterosexual white male.

>>71043513
WTF I HATE THE 50S NOW

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>>71043513
>le women were oppressed meme

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>>71038662
>tfw not a starbucks or McDonalds cunt

>>71041897
Complete garbage graph
>>71042912
Irrelevant, as >>71043104 stated, although he then went on a ramble about a poor, isolationist and underdeveloped 1820 Qing china which is just preposterous: even though the signs of decadence were beginning to show by then, it would only come decades later.
>>71043234
>living anywhere in the 18th century
Ah yes gimmie dat reddit vision of history
>the UK already had the empire
Technically untrue, the "empire" would claim such a title only after 1858, with the dissolution of the mughal empire and the creation of the british raj. By 1820 the amount of british oversea territories was big, but by no means "huge", remarkable or unconvential, expecially after the secession of the Thirteen Colonies.

>>71042853
Quality of life is better here though.

>>71038404
>>71041486
>Great Depression
>1920s

wat

>>71037396
yeah but the 50s were cooler
and the 60s and 70s and 80s, but especially the 50s

>>71037323
Good'ol times of slavery and segregations were better my dude.